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About Mini/MINI:
- I can put whittling down that list without chassis codes on my to-do list for all the pre-1990 classic Minis, but I'm not up to speed with MINI chassis codes or particularly able to ID MINI versions
- there's a few MINIs in that list which can be split off. All hatchbacks are MINIs which should take a chunk out, but not all MINIs are hatchbacks. Some names were used on both Minis and MINIS such as Cooper, Clubman and Countryman so individual checking needed
- all Minis were UK build apart from a brief flurry of Portugese Moke builds. The UK builds should all fall into ADO 15 or 20 or 50 fairly neatly. I'd probably have to make the van and pick-up code ADO15 which we don't particularly do at the moment, but it would be reasonably accurate as they didn't change much. I'll look at them to check they're all OK
- not sure what code to use for Portugese-build Mokes - by this time they'd evolved too far from UK original for ADO, and using the intermediate Australian YDO codes isn't a convincing idea. Ideas welcome.
- the "edge case" 1997 concept should stay Mini as it was created under Rover ownership before BMW's arrival. Or it could become Rover to slot into all the other 1990-2000 Minis?
It may be inconvenient to organise but I don't think the rationale for having Mini and MINI as separate makes is totally dead. They had different owners, different models, different designs and were/are made in different factories - there is no product overlap apart from naming. We informally use a separation system already which largely works, so it's viable - although not watertight and some leakage would always be inevitable.
If you want only one version, I'd prefer Mini (lower case); MINI would look very weird alongside the pre-1990 classic shape models, and Mini with the 2000+versions is more easily digestible and only slightly out of line.
I'd suggest holding off making changes for a week or so until I've tried to chop that list down and have a better idea what's lurking within it. I'm fairly sure I can put chassis codes on all the Minis (though some might be fingers-crossed guesses if poor pictures, and the Moke code is unknown at the moment). I'd guess some of the MINI codes - even with MINI experts joining in - may not be ID-able.
- I can put whittling down that list without chassis codes on my to-do list for all the pre-1990 classic Minis, but I'm not up to speed with MINI chassis codes or particularly able to ID MINI versions
- there's a few MINIs in that list which can be split off. All hatchbacks are MINIs which should take a chunk out, but not all MINIs are hatchbacks. Some names were used on both Minis and MINIS such as Cooper, Clubman and Countryman so individual checking needed
- all Minis were UK build apart from a brief flurry of Portugese Moke builds. The UK builds should all fall into ADO 15 or 20 or 50 fairly neatly. I'd probably have to make the van and pick-up code ADO15 which we don't particularly do at the moment, but it would be reasonably accurate as they didn't change much. I'll look at them to check they're all OK
- not sure what code to use for Portugese-build Mokes - by this time they'd evolved too far from UK original for ADO, and using the intermediate Australian YDO codes isn't a convincing idea. Ideas welcome.
- the "edge case" 1997 concept should stay Mini as it was created under Rover ownership before BMW's arrival. Or it could become Rover to slot into all the other 1990-2000 Minis?
It may be inconvenient to organise but I don't think the rationale for having Mini and MINI as separate makes is totally dead. They had different owners, different models, different designs and were/are made in different factories - there is no product overlap apart from naming. We informally use a separation system already which largely works, so it's viable - although not watertight and some leakage would always be inevitable.
If you want only one version, I'd prefer Mini (lower case); MINI would look very weird alongside the pre-1990 classic shape models, and Mini with the 2000+versions is more easily digestible and only slightly out of line.
I'd suggest holding off making changes for a week or so until I've tried to chop that list down and have a better idea what's lurking within it. I'm fairly sure I can put chassis codes on all the Minis (though some might be fingers-crossed guesses if poor pictures, and the Moke code is unknown at the moment). I'd guess some of the MINI codes - even with MINI experts joining in - may not be ID-able.